ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,240, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Instant scout scan checker" was invented by Thomas Buelow (Grosshansdorf, Germany), Hrishikesh Narayanrao Deshpande (Hamburg, Germany), Tanja Nordhoff (Hamburg, Germany), Tim Philipp Harder (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (1) for use in conjunction with a medical imaging device (2) having an imaging device controller (4) that displays a graphical user interface (GUI) (8) including a preview image viewport (9). The apparatus includes at least one electronic processor (...